Linking the modern to the ancient with a comprehensive geobiological understanding of biosignature preservation in microbial mats
Maya L Gomes1, Usha Farey Lingappa2, Kyle Metcalfe2, Shane Stephen O'Reilly3, Leigh Anne Riedman4, Marjorie Cantine5, Bill Ireland2, Robert Phillips2, Nathaniel Stein2, Emily Ann Orzechowski6, Justin Vincent Strauss7, Hannah M Grotzinger8, Daven Patel Quinn9, Lizzy Trower2, Woodward W Fischer10, John P Grotzinger11, Andrew H Knoll4 and David A Fike12, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, (8)Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (11)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Washington University, St. Louis, United States
